The British issued the Balfour Declaration, a statement of support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”; it was made in a letter from Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary.
1950
蕭伯納去世
英國現實主義戲劇家蕭伯納逝世享年94歲
蕭伯納(George Bernard Shaw,1856年7月26日-1950年11月2日),直譯為喬治·伯納德·肖,愛爾蘭劇作家,1925年“因為作品具有理想主義和人道主義”而獲諾貝爾文學獎,其喜劇作品《賣花女》(Pygmalion)因被 Alan Lerner 改編為音樂劇《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady),該音樂劇又被好萊塢改編為同名賣座電影而家喻戶曉。
A computer science student named Robert Morris released the first computer worm onto the Internet; meant as an experiment, it brought some 6,000 computers (one-tenth of the Internet) to a halt.